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PALESTINE

Sat 18 Nov 2023 7:00 pm - Jerusalem Time

UNRWA condemns the "horrific" bombing of UN schools in Gaza

On Saturday, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, condemned the "horrific" occupation aircraft raids on the organization's schools in the Gaza Strip housing displaced persons.


Lazzarini said on the “X” platform that he received “horrific pictures and footage of many victims and wounded in another UNRWA school that shelters thousands of displaced people in the northern Gaza Strip.”


He added, "These attacks cannot become a normal thing. They must stop. A humanitarian ceasefire cannot be delayed any longer."


Today, Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces committed two massacres in Al-Fakhoura and Tal Al-Zaatar schools in the Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza, which led to the death and injury of hundreds of children and women.


On the fourth of this month, Al-Fakhoura School was subjected to a direct bombardment by occupation aircraft, during which at least 12 citizens were killed and 54 were injured.


In a non-final tally, the Ministry of Health announced that the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip had reached 11,470 martyrs as of November 16, including 4,707 children, 3,155 women, and 686 elderly people, while the number of casualties reached more than 29,000 since the beginning of the Israeli aggression. On the Gaza Strip on the 7th of last October.


While more than 3,600 civilians are still missing or under the rubble, including 1,750 children.



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UNRWA condemns the "horrific" bombing of UN schools in Gaza

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